See The Heartwarming Friendship Between Two Blind Cows

It's udderly adorable.

We're pretty sure we've experienced friendship at first sight, but first smell?

Sweety and Tricia, two blind rescue cows at Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, New York, know all about it.

Lacking the ability to see, the two relied on scent by way of introduction. When caretakers first led Sweety into Tricia's stall, the two greeted each other with tentative sniffs, followed soon after by nuzzling. They've been inseparable ever since.

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Tricia, who had been at the sanctuary for seven years, found it challenging to get along with her barnyard peers. The other cows were "too rough on her and she would panic because she couldn't see what was happening," said Susie Coston, the national shelter director for Farm Sanctuary.

Tricia had one friend, a protective cow named Linda, who sadly died from cancer.

"She was very depressed and bellowing all the time," recalled Coston. Then they got a call about Sweety, whom a rescuer had saved from slaughter.

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Now the pair walk together everywhere, groom each other, and even sleep in the same stall—a best-case scenario for both. "Cows don't like to be alone but with the blindness, it's hard for them to be around others," said Coston.

The folks at Farm Sanctuary hope that, by extending Sweety's life, they're also increasing Tricia's enjoyment of her own.